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> "On the cancer cluster question, ATSDR cites data from the Georgia Comprehensive Cancer Registry to make the case that there isn’t one. GCCR data from the pas
by strainer 7y ago
> "On the cancer cluster question, ATSDR cites data from the Georgia Comprehensive Cancer Registry to make the case that there isn’t one. GCCR data from the past decade shows childhood cancer incidence has been below the state average here. GCCR’s Waycross-area data, however, "doesn’t include people who are diagnosed at hospitals in other cities", as Lexi, Harris, Gage, and Raylee all were."
Charitably, I guess the researchers just don't have resources to locate patients more accurately than by their diagnosing hospitals location. It's a huge amount of noise on top of patients actual location history, which would seem to make their survey only capable of detecting persistent hotspots that span the location of many hospitals.
- DoctorOetker 7y ago>"On the cancer cluster question," Either it's on the cancer cluster question, but then you contact and ascertain the accurate patient location history. Or the data never was on the cancer cluster question...